Highway robbers looted valuables worth Tk several lakhs from passengers of a bus on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway at Putia in Daudkandi upazila on Wednesday night.
Police and passengers said a gang of robbers, numbering 8-10, in the guise of passengers boarded the Laxmipur-bound coach of ‘Jonaki Paribahan’ service from Dhaka in Gozaria of Munshiganj district at about 10:00pm.The gang later snatched away valuables, including cash, from the passengers taking them hostage at gunpoint in the moving bus.When the bus reached Putia of Daudkandi, the robbers forced the passengers to get down. Then they drove away the bus to Siddhirganj of Narayanganj district and fled away leaving the bus there. Officer-in-charge of Daudkandi Police Station Abu Salam Mia confirmed
the incident. -UNB, Comilla
